I'm pulling my hair out trying to get my network working properly. I've tested it through a USB hotspot and a normal Wi-Fi hotspot, and it works perfectly. But whenever I connect to my home network, the ping always gets progressively higher for about two minutes until the internet access (not the connection to the router) drops out all together, and refuses to come back for another five minutes, even after reconnecting.
It's doubtful that the signal strength is a problem, because every other device I have can connect to it, and WICD (yes, I had the same problem with Network Manager) is placing the signal strength at 97%. Plus, I used to be able to connect on this system when it had Windows 10, and also on Ubuntu in a previous Dual-Boot between Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 12.10.
My Wi-Fi card is the RTL8188EE. I thought at first that the card was the problem, but absolutely nothing changed after trying every solution I could find.
The site told me to add the info I get from running the commands at I have a hardware detection problem, what logs do I need to look into?, so here's that (commands run while connected to a wireless hotspot):
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlo1
version: 01
serial: 34:23:87:57:9a:51
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8188ee driverversion=4.4.0-43-generic firmware=N/A ip=172.20.10.2 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:33 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0200000-f0203fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: eno1
version: 07
serial: a0:d3:c1:5a:cf:47
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8106e-1_0.0.1 06/29/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:31 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff memory:f0010000-f001ffff
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
bus info: usb@5:2
logical name: enp0s16f0u2c4i2
serial: ea:80:2e:cf:b9:85
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipheth link=no multicast=yes
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
